Education: San Jose State University, Bachelor of Arts / Science
Stanford University, Master of Business Administration
Google's 12th employee built a fortune that started with a game of ping-pong. Was at Netscape when he met Sergey Brin and Larry Page in 1999. They invited him over for ping-pong in a garage, and he bought everyone dinner at a nearby Chinese restaurant. Now he leads sales and business development. Iranian immigrant got electrical engineering degree at San Jose State, did short stint at Hewlett-Packard. M.B.A. from Stanford, then startups (3DO, Go Corp.), Netscape. Became Google's "business founder" 1999 after Netscaper K. Ram Shriram joined board. Led $1.65 billion purchase of YouTube in 2006.